Flowing up Yosemite

I watched this 60 minutes video of Alex Honnoly climbing in Yosemite a few months ago and haven't been able to get him out of my head.  I never thought I'd see a man climb 2600 feet up a nearly vertical peak without ropes or a safety harness.  But Honnoly does it again and again, and 60 Minutes has more than ten different camera angles to prove it.  According to Lara Logan who made the report, he has done over a thousand "free solo" climbs in his life.  "Free solo" means no safety gear.  On each of the thousand climbs, he had to be perfect.  If not, he'd be dead.

Just watching it scares the crap out of me, yet somehow, Alex is the mellowest guy on earth.  It doesn't faze him.  Off the rock, he's super chill.  And while climbing he whistles and smiles his way up the hardest climbs in the world. He's in a total flow state.  Total consciousness.  Using his brainpower to its maximum potential.  Got me thinking of this amazing book I read years ago called, Flow, by the Czech psychologist,

Another cool thing about him  doesn't even pay rent. He still sleeps in his van in Yosemite park.  This guy's a legend in the making.